As my previous post makes clear, the danger to my career health is distractibility. I work all the time, but I know of only two ways to motivate myself to complete work that is in progress: shame and deadlines. I report to myself, so I shame myself here if the work is not done. I create a deadline of late August 2009. So it’s time to put these motivations to work (after I answer the phone, of course, and the email). Ah, that done–only 5 minutes later–it’s time for the list of tasks to complete:

Course Planning: 15 to 20 hours over next two weeks, with attention to L. Dee Finks’s Creating Significant Learning Experiences, the syllabus, a schedule, and 4 or 5 planned activities as the goal.

Revising and posting here (in parts, at least every other day) my conference presentation on race and typographical space in UTC, as preparation for revising it, probably for 12-15 pg essay in M/MLA

Drafting on canon formation and UTC, for a planned October presentation to ADE

Completing draft collation of four book versions of UTC that are part of my project (80 percent done).

Transcribing chapter a day of UTC for two weeks so I have more representative sample, and then correcting

Sight collating two copies of Jewett paperback, correcting paperback transcription, and completing survey of known copies according to WorldCat: to repeat survey of known copies for National Era newspaper (done, just need to post), Jewett 2-vol. edition (start with Kirkham and update), for illustrated edition, and for 1879 edition.